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No DVD player supports HD.

Actually, they do. The Samsung HD-841 started shipping in the end of 2004, for example. Here's a review. The Toshiba HD-A1 is only $460 on Amazon.

but HD-DVD isn't really DVD anyhow

Neither is blu-ray. That said, HD-DVD devices have been shipping for more than two years, they play HD content, and HD-DVDs look an awful lot like DVDs (they even come in DVD cases.) Given that DVD will never support HD, to suggest that HD-DVD doesn't count when you're talking about DVDs supporting HD is kinda silly.

The player made by Oppo is outselling the PSP (check their sales ranks - #284 and #316 respectively in electronics,) so I think grandparent was in fact quite right to point out that the lack of HD is going to impede sales to a fairly big segment of the customer demographic.

I blew my paltry tax refund on a Zire 71 and never regreted it. Although, I think if it didn't have the (admittedly low quality, but very handy) camera built in, I might have held off and got a Clie.

Runs great, plays my MP3's, takes sneaky pics -- I love it. :P

From the 'wonderful' things I've heard about PocketPC sync software, I'm glad I didn't buy the one I was looking at.